Douglas-Home: Can you not make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost.Make-up girl: No.Douglas-Home: Why not?Make-up girl: Because you have a head like a skull.Douglas-Home: Doesn't everyone have a head like a skull?Make-up girl: No.

Michael Cockerell, "Live from Number 10", p. 105.

A story told by Douglas-Home about going on television in the 1964 election.